Magneto driving apparatus.



C. H. TAYLOR & B. B. NEU'TEBOOM.

MAGNETO DRIVING APPARATUS.

APPUCATION HLED JAN-29. 1911.

Patented. Apr, 9, 1918.

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MAGNETO DRIVING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.29, 1917.

2 SHEETSSHEET 2- ECIL HAMELIN TAYLOR AND IBOUDEWIJN IB. NEUTEBOOIVI, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

MAGNETO DRIVING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 9, 7

Application filed January 29, 1917. Serial No. 145,246.

To all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that we, CECIL HAMELIN TAYLOR and BOUDEWIJN B. NEU'mnooM, citizen of the United States and subject of the Queen of the Netherlands, respectively, residing at Detroit, county of ,lVayne State of Michigan, have invented a certain newand useful Improvement in Magneto Driving Apparatus, and declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as .will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

Our invention relates to driving apparatus for magnetos forautomobile motors and an object of our improvements is to provide an improved apparatus that is readily assembled, easily adjusted, and that affords a yielding transmission for the power.

We secure these objects in the device illustreted in the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation partly in section on the-line AA Fig. 2, of an apparatus embodying our invention and so much of the adjacent parts of a motor as is necessary to illustratei fits connection therewith.

Fig. 2 is a partial end elevation.

Fig. 3 is a detail View partly in. section on the line CC Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a detail View of the tubular arbor and the driving pinion mounted thereon.

85 Fig. 5 is a perspective of'the connecting and driving member.

In Fig. 2, 2 indicates the cylinder and 3 the crank case of an engine.

a is a gear casing. Into the inner wall he; ofthis casing is rigidly fixed a tube 6 which extends through the wall and has its inner end threaded. .1

To prevent possible angular displacement of the tube 7) it is provided with a sheet metal washer or looking piece 6 shown most completely in Fig. 3. This sheet metal piece has a lug formed on it by 1ndent1ng the metal, as shown at e and this lug fits into a drill-hole a in the inner face of the inner 60 wall of the casing a. The washer c has two branches 6 e which extend and fit over the tube 6 and it also has a 1 formea ime junction of the two branches e e which lug extends downward and engages in an aperture 72 through the wall of the tube 1).

0' is the shelf of a bracket upon which is 4 secured the magneto 0 This shelf extends -in a securing bracket which is sleeved at'c' around the tube 1), its inner face engaging against the washer or looking plate 0. (l is a nut, its threads engaging the threads iip'on the inner end of the tube 6 and serving "to" fix the bracket 0 c in position. loosen ing thenut d the bracket may be'adjusted'to any angular position desired and bytigl'itening up the nut the bracket is firmly 50- cured in place. I I

g is a small gear wheel sleeved and. adapted to turn upon the outer, end of the tubei'b as an arbor; m is a washer interposed be tween the inner wall of the gear casing' a and the inner end'of the hub of the gear wheel g. Said hub extends at its other end beyond the end of the tube 1) and provided with oppositely located slots 9 extending radially through its wall beyond the endflof f the tube 6. V t

c is a shaft of the magneto and this iis' provided with a driving sleeve 7 'fixed'at its end. The sleeve If is provided with eppcsitely located radia y extending slots f f I The shaft c is conlcentric'with the when and extends into said tube.

I2, is the transmission member. This is made up of a number of pieces ofelastic sheet-metal laid face to face and"riveted together, as shown most distinctly in Fig.'{5."'*' It has at one end two oppositely located l'aterally extending arms k if, the constituent plates of these arms divergesomewhat-toward their outer ends. The member it is-, forked at its other end providing the-two limbs 71. if, the plates in each of which also diverge toward the ends as shown inFig'. '5. The transmission member 7a. is placed within the tube '1), its arms 71. 71? engagingelastically in the slots 9 g and its limbs h? h extending and engaging elastically inure slots 7 f in the sleeve f uponthe shaftf of the magneto- At the center of the outer" end of the member it there is formed the arched portion is. i is a cap which fits over the hub 'erture in said driving member and at its "-Wlth. a radial slot in its Wall at its end, f

of the Wheel 9 and engages against the part is on the member 71. to hold the same in position. a is the cover of the gear case and j is a thrust Washer interposed. between the cap 2' and the Wall of said cover. It will be noticedthat'i the transmission'niember h is readil inserted in place and f provides a slight y elastic connection for the transmis sion of the power and that'the portion it" permits the member 7 to adjust itseiii to place Without cramping and to accommodate a small variation. in the alinement of the axes of the shaft 0 and the pinion g.

The flange of the cap 2' does not quite cover the slots 9 :80 as to leave a small space as indicated by the arrow through "which oil. Willbe discharged by centrifugal force so that it shall not tend to accumulate and run back upon the ma etc.

It will be understood that when We speak of the shaft 0* and pinion 9 being coaxial that this expression is only approximate as provision is made for a slight variation that may arise in practice. It will also be unden stood that While We have described this driving apparatus as applied to driving a.

magneto that other similar devices may be actuated by it, such as a timer or'the like.

What we claim is:

1; In an apparatus of the kind described, a .revoluble driving member having an a; tu're through it center, a rotatable d member axially in line with said member, said driving member being p driven member bein provided with a slot at its end, a transmission"member having a "laterally extending arm at one end engaging in'the slot of the driving member, said transmission member extending into the ap- "other' end engaging in the slot of the driven member.

' "2. in an apparatus of the kind described,

the combination of a tubular arbor, a driving member mounted and adapted to turn on said arbor, a driven member coaxial with said arbor, a Slot in said driving member in .oneplane transverse to the axis of said arbor, a slot in'the driven member in another plane transverse to the axis of said member,

- said slots opening in the same direction, and

"'a'transinissron member having a lug adapted to engage the slot in 'said driving member, and al'ug adapted. to engage in the slot in. v said driven member, said transmission member so 'engaging said driving member at one endand extending into said arbor and so engaging'the driven member at the other end.

lin an apparatus of the hind described,

aftubular. arbor, a driving member mounted p a braeket' alaver upon said arbor and angui 'nzhm and adaptedto'tur n on said arbor,

neeaeoe .jiistable thereon, a. magneto mounted upon said bracket and having its shaft coaxial with said arbor, a transmission. member engaging said driving member extending int-o said arbor and engaging said shaft, and means for securing said bracket in. its adjusted posit-ion.

5., The combination of an arbor, a Waii. which aid arbor cngageasaid arbor being" provided with an aperture in its periphery adjacent to one face of said "Well, said Wall being provided with an aperture in its face, a lookingmember engaging said arbor having a lug extending; into the aperture in the periphery thereof and a 1,1; extending into the aperture in the face of said Wall.

6. The combination of an arbor, a Wailin which said arbor engages, said arbor being provided with an aperture in its periphery a ig provided with an aperture in its face netal locking member engaging said hav ng alng' the periph therein, said loclnng member ate being bent outward to form a 1 apparatus if the hind described, is driving member having an apadjacent to one face of said Wail, said Wai in the aperture in face of erture through. its center, a rotatable driven 1 member axially in. lin with saiddriving member, a transmission member removably engaging said drivino member extending into said aperture and removably engaging retain said transmission member in its en gaged position, said transmission. m mber beingprovided with an arched. ,1- tion i: at the center of its outer end engaging the inns" surface of said cap.

E in an apparatus of the kind described, the combination of a tubular arbor, a driving member mounted and adapted vto turn on with av radially extending aperture through said arbor and havingone end extending bethe. portion of its well extending beyond m yond the adjacent end of said arbor, a1 driven said arbor. member coaxial with said arbor, a transmis- In testimony whereof, we sign this specifi- 5 sion member engaging said driving member cation, v

at one end ind extending into said arbor and en member at the other CECIL HAMELIN TAYLOR.

e g i the d member being provided BOUDEWIJN B. NEUTEBOOM. 

